The Districts unveil whirring fuzz-pop track "Violet"

"Violet" joins up with "Ordinary Day" and "If Before I Wake" to preview the band's new record.

"Lyrically, 'Violet' deals with ideas of possessiveness, intimacy, sex, dependency, and how they're used manipulatively," says the band's Rob Grote. "Kind of a look at how these things can be beautiful but are also used as devices, usually unconsciously which is the somewhat terrifying part. There is a pervasive thing throughout a lot of classic and modern popular music where ideas of 'needing' and referring to a romantic partner with a tone of ownership are normal and poignant lyrical topics. This song was using those same ideas but observing the strangeness in them, rather than celebrating them. Structurally the song reflects that strangeness by restraining and exploding somewhat irregularly."

In other Districts news, the band were recently confirmed to be guests on outsider icon Daniel Johnston's final tour.